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...this to-do dated from last June, when a dozen petulant Indians stormed into the front office of the Cleveland club, wailed that Manager Oscar Vitt's scoldings got on their nerves, asked President Alva Bradley to fire him. Instead of spanking them, President Bradley coddled his pets, asked them please to grin & bear it for the rest of the season...
...left-handed pitchers, fed them nothing but southpaws (lefties were responsible for nine of their 14 defeats). Still others suggested ennui, overconfidence, the law of averages, and a recent American League ruling that forbids a World Champion club to trade or buy players from rival clubs. But Manager Oscar Vitt of the Cleveland Indians, chuckling over his team's position just behind the league-leading Boston Red Sox, was not entirely surprised by the Yankee collapse. A soothsayer named Tony Characky had predicted to him that Cleveland would put the Indian sign on the Yankees this year...
When Manager Vitt received this augury three weeks ago, he paid it little heed...
Last week, however, Manager Vitt had more respect for the Merlin of Monessen...
Since the Bees' former manager, Bill McKechnie, has been hired by the Cincinnati Reds for next year and" Oscar Vitt, manager of the Newark Bears (International League), has been hired by the Cleveland Indians, after Casey Stengel's "delighted," only one major-league managerial job remained open: with the St. Louis Browns. Meanwhile, Infielder Tony Lazzeri, who was released by the New York Yankees to seek a manager's berth, last week settled down not as manager but as coach of the Chicago Cubs...